Bhabadah and beyond: Marooned for months
On the way to Ranjit Kumar Bawali’s home in Dumurtola village of Jashore’s Bhabadah, a young boy giving directions pointed towards a slim bridge made of bamboo.
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Bangladesh’s climate debt keeps climbing
As global leaders gather in Baku, Azerbaijan to discuss finance at the 29th climate conference, the most vulnerable countries like Bangladesh are demanding new and additional climate finance that does not exacerbate climate debt.
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Coastal people in Bangladesh: Millions suffer as world prepares for COP29
Just a few days ago, Sakhina Begum’s teenage grandson Ariful narrowly escaped a crocodile attack while he and his friend were catching crabs from a canal near his home.
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Extreme weather events threatening food security
Since May last year, Bangladesh faced more than a dozen extreme weather events -- four cyclones, nine incidents of floods, and multiple spells of heavy rains, heatwaves, and cold waves -- and now they threaten food security..These events not only harmed individual farmers and food security
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Rivers around Dhaka stay heavily polluted
Rivers around Dhaka city remain seriously polluted despite some measures that have been taken over the years to curb water pollution, according to a recent study.
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Why tidal surges were so high
Southern rivers in Bangladesh were already swelling with waters on May 23 due to the full moon’s gravitational dance with the Earth.
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Fewer but fiercer since the 90s
Though Bangladesh is experiencing fewer cyclones than in the 1960s, their intensity has increased, a recent study has found.
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Depression forms in the Bay of Bengal
The Met office yesterday said the depression over the Bay of Bengal may intensify and turn into a cyclone before making landfall on the Bangladesh coast tomorrow.
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June 6, 2023
Ban on single-use plastic: No visible step to enforce HC order
Three and a half years into the High Court order to ban single-use plastic products in the coastal districts, there has been no visible progress towards implementation.
June 2, 2023
‘Subsidy benefits don’t reach us’
The government has spent more than Tk 28,000 crore as farm subsidies in the last two fiscal years. However, marginal farmers claim that they get very little benefits out of that.
March 15, 2023
Fair share? Teesta to get even drier in Bangladesh
West Bengal moves to divert more water from the river
March 14, 2023
River pollution: It’s now all over the country
According to a new study, at least 56 rivers flowing through different parts of the country are suffering from extreme pollution during the lean period -- when natural flows of rivers are at their lowest
February 11, 2023
A good initiative falls short of goal
A Tk 3,020 crore government project to popularise cultivation on big plots of land with the help of modern agricultural tools has seen little success in the last two years.
February 9, 2023
9.4m displaced in seven years
At least 1,053 people were killed and 9.4 million more displaced internally in different climate-related disasters in 58 districts in seven years from 2014, says a recent study.
January 31, 2023
Blogging in Bangladesh: Caught between a rock and a hard place
"On one hand, there was a fear of being the target of machete attacks while there were laws like the ICT Act. We were sandwiched in between. "
January 1, 2023
Farmers come to our rescue, yet again
When Abdul Haque woke up at dawn yesterday, not even the bone-chilling cold or the fog could stop him from getting out onto the field.
December 1, 2022
Choking the lifeblood of democracy
"The only security of all is in a free press," Thomas Jefferson, famous American statesman and the country’s third president once said.
October 22, 2022
Free speech the collateral damage of Covid in Bangladesh
When Covid-19 began to spread at an exponential rate across countries in January 2020, ministers and government officials in Bangladesh assured people that "adequate measures" were taken to prevent coronavirus from entering the country.
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